Translating ideas to the page and staying with the work for the time necessary to polish a piece takes stamina, discipline, and resilience. Writer’s Studio is designed to emphasize and support the ChiArts core values of balance and perseverance. Because of the student-writer workload, Writer’s Studio will provide students with significant time to write twice a week. The course gives students a space to draft and polish pieces that are assigned in their creative writing classes and to develop new work based on students’ interests and preferred genre.

Instruction in Writer’s Studio will focus on the following:

Each year, the Studio will emphasize one aspect of writing through mini-lessons, exercises, and experiences.

Students will be given significant time to write during each Studio, and frequent individual coaching sessions will guide students through the writing process and address individual needs.

Students may workshop their pieces. They will read each other’s work and provide supportive, constructive, and clear feedback.

Additional lessons will be given based on trends and patterns in student work.

Juniors and Seniors will examine their work, create a plan for writing, and develop a book-length senior project

Writer’s Studio IV – Revision (Year 4):Writer’s Studio IV emphasizes revision. While revision will be integrated throughout the Creative Writing program, in Studio IV, students will undertake a year of seeing their writing anew. Students will identify and practice ways to revise their own work. The Writer’s Studio IV instructor will also serve as an advisor for seniors’ book-length projects.

Position Summary:

The ideal candidate will be a specialist in the field and will have the passion and skills to create a learning environment that will offer rigorous pre-professional arts training that challenges students to achieve at high levels and is experienced in working with high school age students. Instructors at ChiArts will be required to differentiate instruction; design lesson and unit plans that properly assess student achievement and encourage skill development and critical thinking.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Classroom and professional duties include, but are not limited to the following: